Places K3P0 Wants to Go

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.